Chinese symbol for “detached”
独栋
dú dòng
Traditional: 獨棟
(of a building) detached
The closest CC-CEDICT match for detached is 独栋 (dú dòng), defined as: (of a building) detached.
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Characters and stroke order
Traditional forms
Other Chinese words for “detached”
Related words
Other words that share a character with 独栋.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 独立 (獨立) | dú lì | independent; independence |
| 独特 (獨特) | dú tè | unique; distinctive |
| 单独 (單獨) | dān dú | alone; by oneself |
| 独自 (獨自) | dú zì | alone |
| 孤独 (孤獨) | gū dú | lonely; solitary |
| 独裁 (獨裁) | dú cái | dictatorship |
| 栋梁 (棟梁) | dòng liáng | ridgepole; ridgepole and beams |
| 雕梁画栋 (雕梁畫棟) | diāo liáng huà dòng | richly ornamented (building) |
See also: Japanese symbol for “detached”.
Data: CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); wordfreq (CC BY-SA 4.0 (data)). Retrieved 2026-10-22.